The IGU Regional Conference Kraków, Poland, 18-22.08.2014

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Krakow IGU Regional Conference, August 18-22. 2014

C12.36 Toponymy

Wednesday August 20, 9-10.45, room 23, chair: Peter Jordan

Geographical aspects of place names: cultural-geographical approaches

Dr. Premysl Madra: Identity, landscape and toponymy in the rural space of the Czech Republic

Prof, Sang-Hyun Chi, Prof, Sungjae Cho, Heesu Kim: Place-names conflicts: A typology for intra-national cases

Dr. Marcin Solarz: A misleading geography of some unusual and disputed toponyms

Dr. Karol Janes: Role of urban names in the process of building local identity in Nowa Huta

Thursday, August 21, 9-10.45, room 22, chair: Cosimo Palagiano

Geographical aspects of place-names: Naming motives, place names as keys to culture and cultural history

Prof. Peter Raper: Toponymic motivation shift in Southern Africa

M.A: Karen Heikkila: Some observations on Semai Orang Asli Toponymy and narratives and their value in indigineous heritage protection

M.Sc. Yaïves Ferland: Direction, distance,  and Orientation in the evolution of land and sea placenames

Dr. Joan Tort Donada: On the Toponymy of Pyrenean Lakes. Some geographical, historical and linguistic questions

Thursday,  August 21, 11.15-13, room 22, chair: Joan Tort Donada

Geographical aspects of place names: Names in urban space

Prof. Cosimo Palagiano: Communicative names of cities and streets

Dr. Danielle Drozdezewski: Using history to affirm geopolitics of memory of the Krakόw streetscape

Prof. Wenchuan Huang: Naming as norming: the cultural politics of naming the streets in the oldest city of Taiwan

Prof. Peter Kang: The new toponymic representation of urban space: the case of naming of metro-stations of Taiwan

Thursday, August 21, 16-17.45, room 22, chair: Sungjae Choo

Geographical aspects of place names: Names of transboundary features

Dr. Riemer Reinsma:  Names in uninhabitated areas: the case of the southern North Sea

Dr. Sun Ba-Bae Kim: Layers of Meaning and Territory’s Change on the Name East Sea

Prof. Huo Hyun Sung, M.A. Jisoo Kim, M.A. Jung Kim, M.A. Won Young Lee:  Distribution of undersea feature names based on the GEBCO Gazetteer (B8)

Maciej Zych: The names of geographical objects beyond a single sovereignty lying on the Polish-Czech   boundary.

Friday, August 22, 9-10.45, room 19, chair Peter Raper

Geographical aspects of place names: Naming policies and place-names use

 Prof. Peter Jordan, M.Sc. Olivia Stummvoll: Commercial use of landscape and region names: the example of Austria

Dr. Sirkka Paikkala: Plain language and administrative names

Fazllur Rahman Hassan, Ferdinand Simatupang, Bintang Rahmat Wananda, Dr. Samsul Bachri: Toponymic problems in West Java, Indonesia

Dr. Anrez A. Herzen: Ethno-political conflicts and toponymic heritage in the North-Western Black Sea region

Friday, 11.15-13, room 19, chair: Yaïves Ferland

Geographical aspects of place names: filed collection of names and names on maps

 Dr. Samsul Bachri, M.Sc. Danoe Soeryamihardja, Bintang Rahmat Wananda, Ferdinand Simatupang: Toponymy of Indonesian Frontline Islands

Yelizaveta Milenina, Dr. Andriy Domaranskiy: Forests of Kirovograd Region: space-toponym inventory and features
Prof. Mohsen Dhieb: Enhancing the design of the Toponymic Intormation System of Tunisia

Bogus aw Zagόrki: An Ottoman Turkish map of Poland from the beginning of the 20^th century. Study of Toponymy.